Typo springs drug offender

For those of you outraged by technicalities helping or hurting defendants, I give you the following:

CNN is reporting:

“A three-letter typo has slashed years off a prison sentence for a repeat drug offender in Ohio.
Calvin Eugene Wells discovered a discrepancy on the verdict form for his conviction.”

It appears jurors wanted to convict Wells of a higher drug crime, but made a mistake filling out the verdict sheet and only convicted him of a lesser charge. A panel of judges agreed and years will be cut off Wells sentence.